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Identifier: artsinearlyengla03brow (find matches)
Title: The arts in early England
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956 Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980
Subjects: Art Architecture Architecture, Medieval Church architecture Crosses Decoration and ornament, Celtic Inscriptions, Runic
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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dstone, PI. xxvi, 3, and a more completeone of silver gilt found at Gilton, Kent, in the Faussettcollection at Liverpool, PL xxvi, 5, where the lower part ofthe hilt is also shown. The cocked hat part of the pommelhas lost here its original constructive purpose as a washerthrough which the end of the tang is passed to be there* clinched, and is becoming a mere ornamental finish, for inthese enriched specimens, which are sometimes of gildedbronze set with garnets, the iron tang does not come throughat the top. This of course entirely alters the construction,and some other contrivance has to be adopted to prevent thewhole pommel arrangement slipping off from the end of thetang. It is not easy to see how this was done. In these moreelaborate hilts a bronze plate comes under the cocked hatpommel to which this is riveted. To pass the end of thetang through this plate and beat it out is a very simple andpractical arrangement which would certainly occur to the XXVII facing p. 221 SWORD HILTS
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I, 2, are Continental ADJUNCTS TO THE HILT 221 craftsman, and the cocked hat would be finally riveted downover the top for a finish. Elaboration in this part of the hilt is however carried stillfurther. A little distance, say § in., below this first plate therecomes another of equal size, and the two are riveted togetherthrough a disc of hard wood that is introduced between.PI. xxvi, 3, shows this still in situ. Furthermore, in 3 and 5on PL xxvi and 4 on PI. xxvn, one of the rivets, shown bestin the last-mentioned example, terminates above the uppersurface of the end of the cocked hat pommel in a ring, and inthis fixed ring a second ring is made loosely to play. Thepurpose of this seems to be to afford means for the attachmentof a cord to the hilt that could be tied round the wrist, so thatthe weapon might be temporarily dropped from the grasp andeasily recovered again. For the sake of securing a solidattachment for this fixed ring the rivet which is in one piecewith it is carried do

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